White House says everything is fine, though signs point otherwise

In a statement last week, Mattis called the book "fiction" and said that "the contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in Woodward's book were never uttered by me or in my presence".

During a meeting with his top economic adviser, President Donald Trump suggested that since interest rates were going up, the U.S. government should simply borrow massive amounts of money. "This is the best reporting you can do, or that I can do".

According to the book, Trump told his national security aide that United States is losing in Afghanistan. CGTN's Jim Spellman has more in this report. "Woodward would have performed rudimentary journalistic fact checking with those he was quoting, he would have had a more accurate book rather than just being a stenographer for Mr. Bannon's self-aggrandizing revisionist history".

The book reached stores on Tuesday and has been No. 1 on Amazon since details first began emerging a week ago.

In other tweets Monday morning, Trump claimed that the White House, which has experienced significant staff turnover and other tumult, is a "smooth running machine" and touted economic figures under his leadership.

Citing Woodward, news agency PTI said that Trump's comment came during a situation meeting on July 19, 2017, in White House, three weeks after he had met the Indian Prime Minister in White House. If I did I would not have been elected President.

"You don't get to do it that way", Cohn said, according to Woodward. "Because we go up and every time you go up they want to raise rates again".

President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to North Dakota on Friday, "I would say Jeff [Sessions] should be investigating who the author of that piece was because I really believe it's national security". Cohn's and Porter's denials seem geared toward tamping down tensions with the White House without totally discounting Woodward's reporting.

‘Green light’ given for third UEFA club competition
Even the second-tier Europa League has been won only by Spanish or English clubs for the past seven seasons. UEFA previously had the Intertoto Cup as a third European cub competition but it was abolished in 2008.